A Tour of Cultivated Colour

Thank you to everyone who came along to the private view of Cultivated Colour at The Scottish Gallery, and to all who joined Jan Patience and me for Saturday's in conversation. It was a real pleasure to see so many familiar faces, and new ones too, and to talk about the garden, the studio and the objects that find their way into these paintings.

For anyone who hasn't yet made it to Dundas Street, below is a virtual tour of the exhibition, which continues until Saturday 24 October.

You can see the whole show here on my website. All the works can also be viewed and purchased on The Scottish Gallery's website.

Coffee Morning – Friday 23 October, 11am–12 noon

I'll be back at the gallery for a coffee morning as the exhibition enters its final days. It's an informal chance to look at the paintings together and talk about the plants, ceramics and patterned papers behind them, and everyone is welcome. Find out more.

Cultivated Colour is at The Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh EH3 6HZ, until 24 October. Founded in 1842, it is one of the oldest galleries in the UK, and it's a privilege to be showing there again.

The paintings follow the garden through the year. It begins in the darkest months with Snowdrops in Ed's Regency Cup and Venetian Glass with Snowdrops, then moves into spring with Crocus in Spring Cup.

Tulips from the polytunnel take up much of the spring wall: Tulip 'Columbine' with Forget-Me-Nots, Tulips and Spring Blues and Wally Dugs with Tulips, where a pair of Staffordshire dogs keeps watch over the flowers.

Summer brings irises, astrantia and agapanthus, as in Agapanthus, Blue Platter. The dahlias carry the garden on into autumn, in Dahlias in the Mysterious Bowl and Autumn Flowers with Rye Coffee Pot.

Indoors, pelargoniums keep the colour going through winter. Many of them were passed on by friends, like the plant in Brita's Pelargonium in Sunderland Jug and The Swedish Pelargonium. The largest painting in the show, Pelargoniums, Lustreware and Birds, brings together several of these plants with pieces from the studio shelves.

You can see the whole exhibition here on my website. All the works can also be viewed and purchased on The Scottish Gallery's website.

Photography by Jack Dalgleish and Antony Baxter.